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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:56:21 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Blackfin SMP like patchset On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:05:03 +0800 Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > We provide the SMP like functions for our Blackfin dual core processor > BF561 for almost 1 year. And after a long time developing, debugging and > internal review, we'd like to post them to LKML for other maintainer > review. > > Please find our wiki page about this SMP like patches: > http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=linux-kernel:smp-like Would prefer that changelogs be self-contained, please. Kernel changelogs are for ever, and I doubt if that page will be there in 20 years time. Particularly when that page must be read to learn fundamental things such as The SMP support in certain Blackfin processors is describe as `SMP Like' rather than just `SMP' due to the lack of hardware cache coherency. A true SMP system would have support for cache coherency in hardware. On all `SMP Like' setups, cache coherency is maintained via software mechanisms Interesting! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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